Wizard: Become stronger by drawing cards from the potions variety show

Chapter 552: Mutual Antidote
There's obviously nothing wrong, so why does it feel so strange?
As wizards, high sensitivity is a natural characteristic of this group. They will be warned of drastic changes in fate, and at some point they will discover details that they have overlooked, which often bring different revelations.

Catherine believed in her intuition that something important must have happened, and these things were also related to the players.

Catherine thought for a moment, then said to the player who was tiptoeing away from her, "Hey, that...player."

The two players who were about to leave quietly heard Catherine's voice, turned around awkwardly, pointed at themselves, and made a questioning expression, as if to say, "Are you calling me?"

Catherine nodded: "Yes, I'm calling you, and the one next to you, come over too."

The two players' hearts skipped a beat and they looked at each other, panic appearing in their eyes.

After hesitating for a while, the two men came to Catherine somewhat reluctantly.

"Professor Catherine, what do you want?"

One of the players asked carefully, with a look of uneasiness and tentativeness in his eyes.

Catherine frowned and then asked, "What happened? Why are you hiding from me..."

The player shuddered and touched his head awkwardly, looking down and saying, "Hahaha, Professor Catherine, you just love to joke around. I've always been the one most willing to take on your missions. How could I possibly avoid you? Otherwise...ah——"

The player on the other side stepped forward, stomped hard on the foot of his companion, and then said, "Professor Catherine, there is nothing special. We have other tasks to do. If there is nothing else, we will leave first."

The interrupted player also woke up and realized that he was almost deceived by the spell. He broke out in a cold sweat and thought about what would happen next. If it was leaked out from him, it would be troublesome. He looked at his companion beside him with gratitude.

Catherine watched every move of these two people.

All I can say is that these two people are becoming more and more weird.

Catherine observed the two of them and tentatively said, "I just happen to have a ceremony here that needs someone to help improve it. Do you have time?"

As soon as she finished speaking, the eyes of the player whose foot was stepped on instantly lit up, brighter than the light of a magic torch, but the next moment, the player next to him said: "Sorry, Professor, we have other tasks. After we complete our tasks, if you still need help, we will come to visit you."

The player with bright eyes had a look of regret in his eyes, which could be seen without observation. He said very reluctantly: "Yes, yes, Professor Catherine, we have things to do now. If there are good tasks later, please leave them to us... Hey, why did you hit me?"

The player next to him glared at him, bowed helplessly, and without waiting for Catherine to speak, he pulled his companion away. Although they walked, she could clearly feel that the other party's steps were a little fast, and soon disappeared around the corner, as if he was avoiding her.

Catherine watched the two people leave. She could feel that they must be hiding something from her...

But, what is it?

Catherine has come into contact with quite a few player groups, and they all left a very good impression on her. A situation like today can almost be said to have never occurred before.

There is weirdness.

Could it be that there are some abnormal signs among the player community?

As this thought arose, Catherine's mind began to see the battles of the Elf Rebellion, the destruction of the Giant King's Court... various battles of racial competition flowed through her mind.

Is it possible that after the player race has developed, it has developed some different thoughts?

After all, the desire to develop is the instinct of any race.

Catherine immediately summoned the snake seal and wanted to inform Li Daoxian of her discovery. After all, in the entire snake area, the widespread epidemic network could observe every abnormal movement. If there was really a problem, some abnormalities would definitely be observed.

However, after the message was sent, there was no immediate response.

This is normal. Li Daoxian had said before that he had things to deal with, and Catherine just told him the doubts here and asked him to investigate it in detail when he has time.

As for myself...

Catherine's eyes flashed. Since she couldn't study it properly, she followed these players to see what they were hiding from her.

Catherine's figure suddenly disappeared into the air.

On the other side, the two players turned into several passages and only breathed a sigh of relief when they felt they had walked far enough.

"Scary, I almost got discovered."

"I was just saying that. Do you have any psychological quality? You almost said something important. If we really messed things up, have you ever thought about how we can survive in the future? Apart from anything else, forget about the assessment."

The player who was scolded knew that he was in the wrong, but he couldn't help but defend himself: "Can you blame me? Can you withstand the professor's induction? If the player template was not resistant to mental magic, you wouldn't be much better."

Another player taunted, "Hey, this is the importance of 'Mechanical Mind'. I sacrificed a spell slot in the magic crystal ring just to prevent myself from not having the chance to use spells..."

The player who was being scolded was about to say something, but suddenly he calmed down.

After the two of them were silent for a moment, he suddenly said, "By the way, let's hurry up with our mission. We have to be careful this time and don't get discovered."

The other player stopped taunting and just said calmly, "Yeah."

Then the two figures continued to move forward, passing through the intricate passages of the Snake District, and the two figures quickly disappeared among the crowd of residents.

Catherine, who was following behind the two of them, was a little confused: "The reaction is a little strange, did they find me?"

Normally, when one suspects that they have been exposed, one should retreat decisively and focus on preserving one's own life. However, Catherine noticed that the direction the two men left seemed to be the Endless Secret Treasure Academy.

That's her territory, it doesn't matter. Catherine wants to see what the problem is.

After all, in Catherine's impression, there should be no secret missions in the Endless Secret Academy. Only the snake wizards' secret missions such as infiltration, assassination and intelligence gathering are secret missions.

Judging from the expressions of the two players just now, it was obvious that they had not received any similar training, and it was obvious that they were lying and concealing something.

……

Catherine followed the two players in. She found that the players in the Endless Secret Treasure seemed very excited. This excitement was so strong that the internal facilities of the Endless Secret Treasure Academy became much brighter because of this emotion.

This made Catherine realize that something must have happened, and it was related to the player group.

She concealed her figure and followed the two players from a distance.

The players wandered around in the Endless Secret Academy and walked through many secret passages. It was the first time for Catherine to know that there were so many secret passages here. On weekdays, she only went to a few places, either the laboratory, the principal's office, or the alchemy classroom. She hardly ever visited the Endless Secret Academy properly.

Soon, Catherine realized that the two guys in front of her seemed to be trying to get rid of the pursuers. They would use clones and stealth magic to interfere, and at the same time observe whether anyone was following them in the secret passage. It was just a pity that Catherine was born with two souls, and her perception and observation abilities far exceeded those of ordinary high-level wizards. In addition, the natural "dedication" rule made her perception of life even more acute, and she was completely unaffected by the two players' tricks.

Until the end, the two players seemed to have confirmed that no one was following them, so they walked into another secret passage.

Catherine looked a little strange.

Because she already knew where the end of this secret passage was; it was the auditorium.

I didn't expect these players to be so bold as to choose the auditorium as the venue for the gathering...

But it does make sense if you think about it this way. After all, as long as there aren't any major festivals, the players basically eat in the auditorium, and a large number of players gathering together won't attract anyone's attention, which seems reasonable.

There were two players standing in front of the auditorium. When they saw the two players coming, they said, "We've been waiting for you. Why are you two so slow? Don't you know what's going on today? Do you still want to..."

"Shh!"

The player who had been maintaining his mechanical mind became anxious and no longer cared about acting, and quickly put his hand to his mouth.

If these two guys in front of me really say something, all our efforts will be in vain.

Fortunately, the two players at the door also realized something and stopped talking. They just asked the two to go in quickly. After the two went in, they closed the door of the auditorium and raised the barrier.

"Boundary?" Catherine stood in front of the auditorium door and narrowed her eyes. "If it were something else, it would take some effort, but if we use the original boundary of the auditorium, it would be much simpler."

She has access to all rooms in the Endless Secret Collection and can move freely anywhere.

Then, she turned into a wisp of white smoke, passed through the crack in the door, and entered the auditorium.

In the passage at the main entrance of the auditorium, her body was affected by an invisible force and directly restored to human form.

"This……"

Catherine could feel that there were a lot of auras in the hall in front of her. They were players, snake wizards, and many...many familiar auras.

In the portraits on both sides of the passage, a medieval wizard couple was winking at Catherine with a smile on their faces, then they stretched out their hands, pointed inside the passage, and motioned her to go in.

A bold and expectant thought arose in Catherine's mind.

She walked slowly along the aisle, and when she entered the main hall of the auditorium, countless eyes focused on her.

The auditorium had been expanded several times by Magic Without Trace, but despite this, the players and snake wizards still filled the auditorium.

What Catherine could not have imagined was that their mentor was sitting in the front row of the auditorium.

Gordon, Maggie and Xue Qian, all came.

And...beside them, the contestants who were on the same stage with Catherine at that time were all smiling, Yuan Hua, Funi, Al Farak, and the complaining Zuma...

Everyone was in high spirits with smiling faces.

The torch candlesticks floating in the auditorium now played cheerful music.

In the dome above the auditorium, countless stars twinkled, as if dancing to the music.

In the center of the auditorium was the smiling Lee Do-hyeon.

Yes, it’s not Sinclair, but Lee Do-hyun, the real Lee Do-hyun.

His figure flashed and he appeared beside Catherine. He took Catherine's hand and said softly, "I wanted to give you a surprise after the decoration was completed. It happened that you found the rope to tie the gift, so it might be a good idea to let you find it yourself."

Li Daoxian blinked, and his deep eyes were filled with smiles at this moment.

Catherine was a little excited. She had realized what was going to happen, so she pursed her lips and punched Li Daoxian hard in the heart. However, this powerful punch was caught by Li Daoxian when it was about to hit her. He suddenly pulled her and held her in his arms.

The two then appeared on the high platform in the center of the auditorium.

It was not until this moment that Catherine discovered that the stars twinkling in the sky above the auditorium were actually the memories of the time they spent together.

Li Daoxian hugged Catherine, looked up, and looked at the stars in the dome with her.

The two were once rivals, then became good friends, and then... they fell in love.

He said softly:
"The one that left the deepest impression on me was the poison incident (the potion master didn't die from the poison), not only because I found my path in that round, but also because of that experience, which made me realize later that in many cases, people are often limited by concepts. The so-called poison, the so-called mismatch, and the self-touching accomplishment are all immersed in the concepts given by others."

"Fortunately, I realized this not too late."

Li Daoxian looked at Catherine with tenderness in his eyes.

He knelt on one knee, looked at Catherine seriously, and said: "Catherine, the most contradictory potion formula in the world is you and me--"

"You have so many choices, but you are attracted to a pretentious fool like me."

The sky was full of twinkling stars, and the time they spent together was passing quietly.

After Li Daoxian was safe, Catherine hugged him regardless of other people's eyes, but before that she scolded Gordon.

Catherine lent Li Daoxian the tuner, knowing that this would lead to punishment within the school...

Li Daoxian's eyes had never been so serious before. His voice was soft, with a smile and happiness that anyone could hear: "You always say that I'm a potion genius, so I thought of a new potion formula--"

"With 4,700 grams of sincerity as the guide, a long period of time as the base, our hearts as the framework, all the past is integrated into the bottle called love..."

"Achieve the most perfect reaction - mutually antidote, eternally neutralized."

"Would you like that?"

Catherine smiled and said, "I do!"

(End of this chapter)